Language Creation And Language Change

Author : Michel DeGraff
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 0262041685

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Language Creation and Language Change by Michel DeGraff Pdf

Research on creolization, language change, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop within individual speakers--and (viewed externally) across generations of speakers. The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language development from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities and from a diversity of acquisition environments. In turn, this comparison yields fresh insights on the mental bases of language creation.The book is organized into five parts: creolization and acquisition; acquisition under exceptional circumstances; language processing and syntactic change; parameter setting in acquisition and through creolization and language change; and a concluding part integrating the contributors' observations and proposals into a series of commentaries on the state of the art in our understanding of language development, its role in creolization and diachrony, and implications for linguistic theory.Contributors : Dany Adone, Derek Bickerton, Adrienne Bruyn, Marie Coppola, Michel DeGraff, Viviane D�prez, Alison Henry, Judy Kegl, David Lightfoot, John S. Lumsden, Salikoko S. Mufwene, Pieter Muysken, Elissa L. Newport, Luigi Rizzi, Ian Roberts, Ann Senghas, Rex A. Sprouse, Denise Tangney, Anne Vainikka, Barbara S. Vance, Maaike Verrips.

Author : Joan Bybee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107020160

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Language Change by Joan Bybee Pdf

This new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.

Author : David J. Peterson
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780143126461

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The Art of Language Invention by David J. Peterson Pdf

From language creator David J. Peterson comes a creative gui de to language constructio, offering an overview of language creation, covering its history from Tolkien's creations and Klingon to today's thriving global community of conlangers. He provides the essential tools necessary for inventing and evolving new languages, using examples from a variety of languages including his own creations.

Author : Morten H. Christiansen,Nick Chater
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262334785

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Creating Language by Morten H. Christiansen,Nick Chater Pdf

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand this astonishing phenomenon, we must consider how language is created: moment by moment, in the generation and understanding of individual utterances; year by year, as new language learners acquire language skills; and generation by generation, as languages change, split, and fuse through the processes of cultural evolution. Christiansen and Chater propose a revolutionary new framework for understanding the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, offering an integrated theory of how language creation is intertwined across these multiple timescales. Christiansen and Chater argue that mainstream generative approaches to language do not provide compelling accounts of language evolution, acquisition, and processing. Their own account draws on important developments from across the language sciences, including statistical natural language processing, learnability theory, computational modeling, and psycholinguistic experiments with children and adults. Christiansen and Chater also consider some of the major implications of their theoretical approach for our understanding of how language works, offering alternative accounts of specific aspects of language, including the structure of the vocabulary, the importance of experience in language processing, and the nature of recursive linguistic structure.

Author : Mari Jones,Ishtla Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136522406

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Exploring Language Change by Mari Jones,Ishtla Singh Pdf

In this student-friendly text, Jones and Singh explore the phenomenon of language change, with a particular focus on the social contexts of its occurrence and possible motivations, including speakers’ intentions and attitudes. Presenting new or little-known data, the authors draw a distinction between "unconscious" and "deliberate" change. The discussion on "unconscious" change considers phenomena such as the emergence and obsolescence of individual languages, whilst the sections on "deliberate" change focus on issues of language planning, including the strategies of language revival and revitalization movements. There is also a detailed exploration of what is arguably the most extreme instance of "deliberate" change; language invention for real-world use. Examining an extensive range of language situations, Exploring Language Change makes a clear, but often ignored distinction between concepts such as language policy and planning, and language revival and revitalization. Also featured are a number of case studies which demonstrate that real-life language use is often much more complex than theoretical abstractions might suggest. This is a key text for students on a variety of courses, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and language policy and planning.

Author : Michel DeGraff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Creole dialects
ISBN : 0262271397

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Author : Alexander Bergs,Gabriele Diewald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110211757

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Constructions and Language Change by Alexander Bergs,Gabriele Diewald Pdf

Studies in diachronic linguistics increasingly acknowledge that linguistic change is highly context-dependent and somehow tied to constructions as linguistic units. This is the first volume to investigate the role of constructions and the potential of constructional approaches in linguistic change. The contributions in this volume comprise both theoretical and empirical studies, all of which are accessible for a general audience. While some contributions explicitly aim at comparing and unifying concepts from both traditional grammatical theories and recent construction grammar approaches, others offer detailed case studies of exemplary problems from a constructional point of view. The papers offer a cross-linguistic perspective and deal with a number of different language families, ranging from Germanic to Austronesian.

Author : Hendrik De Smet,Lobke Ghesquière,Freek Van de Velde
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268006

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On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change by Hendrik De Smet,Lobke Ghesquière,Freek Van de Velde Pdf

In much writing on language change, there is a tacit assumption that change operates on a single source construction to produce an innovative target construction. This volume challenges this assumption, by showing that many changes involve interactions between multiple source constructions. In fact, the involvement of multiple source constructions is unexceptional. The phenomenon is observed in phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. It is seen in language-internal change as well as in contact-induced change. Interactions may obtain between independent but historically related constructions as well as between historically unrelated constructions. The contributions to this volume, on the one hand, present specific case studies on changes involving multiple source constructions, in various domains of grammar and in a variety of languages. On the other hand, they discuss how such changes can be accommodated in current theoretical models of language. Originally published in Studies in Language Vol. 37:3 (2013).

Author : Evie Coussé,Ferdinand von Mengden
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270092

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Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change by Evie Coussé,Ferdinand von Mengden Pdf

Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has always been recognized in this framework, but has never received central attention. It is the main aim of this book to fill this gap. Once we recognize that usage is crucial for our understanding of language and linguistic structures, language change and variation inevitably take centre stage in linguistic analysis. Along these lines, the volume presents eight studies by international authors that discuss various approaches to studying language change from a usage-based perspective. Both theoretical issues and empirical case studies are well-represented in this collection. The case studies cover a variety of different languages – ranging from historically well-studied European languages via Japanese to the Amazonian isolate Yurakaré with no written history at all. The book provides new insights relevant for scholars interested in both functional and cognitive linguistic theory, in historical linguists and in language typology.

Author : Marianne Hundt,Sandra Mollin,Simone E. Pfenninger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107086869

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The Changing English Language by Marianne Hundt,Sandra Mollin,Simone E. Pfenninger Pdf

Experts from psycholinguistics and English historical linguistics address core factors in language change.

Author : Florian Coulmas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521362555

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Language Adaptation by Florian Coulmas Pdf

Language Adaptation examines the process by which a speech community is forced to adopt an active role in making its language suitable for changing functional requirements. This wide-ranging collection of essays looks at this phenomenon from a variety of historical and synchronic perspectives, and brings together the work of a number of leading scholars in the field. Several different languages are examined at different stages of their history, including Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Kiswahili, German and Hindi. This well-informed book is a significant contribution to the existing literature on language planning, and is the first to use one theoretical concept to deal with the relationship between natural and deliberate language change. It shows that language adaptation is a particular aspect of language change, and thus establishes a link between the social and the historical study of language. It will appeal to graduate students and professionals in linguistics and the social sciences, as well as to practitioners of language planning.

Author : Peter K. Austin,Julia Sallabank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139500838

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The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages by Peter K. Austin,Julia Sallabank Pdf

It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This state-of-the-art Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages. The volume is relevant not only to researchers in language endangerment, language shift and language death, but to anyone interested in the languages and cultures of the world. It is accessible both to specialists and non-specialists: researchers will find cutting-edge contributions from acknowledged experts in their fields, while students, activists and other interested readers will find a wealth of readable yet thorough and up-to-date information.

Author : Larry Trask
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134885688

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Language Change by Larry Trask Pdf

In Language Change , R. L. Trask uses data from English and other languages to introduce the concepts central to language change. Language Change: covers the most frequent types of language change and how languages are born and die uses data-based exercises to show how languages change looks at other key areas such as attitudes to language change, and the consequences of changing language.

Author : Kate Burridge,Alexander Bergs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315463001

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Understanding Language Change by Kate Burridge,Alexander Bergs Pdf

2 Changes to the lexicon -- Introduction -- 2.1 Gaining words - lexical addition -- 2.1.1 Compounding -- 2.1.2 Affixation -- 2.1.3 Backformation -- 2.1.4 Conversion -- 2.1.5 Abbreviation -- 2.1.6 Acronyms -- 2.1.7 Blending -- 2.1.8 Commonization -- 2.1.9 Reduplication -- 2.1.10 Borrowing -- 2.1.11 Sound symbolism -- 2.1.12 A final word on the processes -- 2.2 Losing words - lexical mortality -- 2.2.1 Obsolescence -- 2.2.2 "Verbicide"--2.2.3 Reduction -- 2.2.4 Intolerable homonymy -- 2.3 Etymology - study of the origin of words -- Summary -- Further reading -- Exercises

Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811564307

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Dynamics of Language Changes by Keith Allan Pdf

This book explores the dynamics of language changes from sociolinguistic and historical linguistic perspectives. With in-depth case studies from all around the world, it uses diverse approaches across sociolinguistics and historical linguistics to answer questions such as: How and why do language changes begin?; how do language changes spread?; and how can they ultimately be explained? Each chapter explores a different component of language change, including typology, syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, lexicology, discourse strategies, diachronic change, synchronic change, how the deafblind modify sign language, and the accommodation of language to song. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of language change over time, simultaneously advancing current research and suggesting new directions in sociolinguistic and historical linguistic approaches.